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Comment · 2 months ago
After all, how do we know domestic abuse isn't happening there without cameras?
Comment · 2 months ago
Honestly at this point it is usually the Europeans that need this (I have been asked if Chile has good tacos from a European). At least in my experience, most USians (in spanish Americans means everyone in the hemisphere) now know more about South America than the average European.

(Which is to be expected, proximity and all)

Comment · 2 months ago
So energy demand was increasing? Perhaps electric cars?
Comment · 4 months ago
But is it a 3% gain if we include the costs? Or would it actually be cheaper to just hire humans with the money going to tokens?
Comment · 4 months ago
But the whole game is lying and stealing isn't it?
Comment · 4 months ago
Yes, and this is a policy failure.
Comment · 4 months ago
This is not true. Batteries are cheaper than peaker power plants using fossil fuel. They also allow the operator to fulfill market demands at the minute level versus the hours previously that it took to turn on a peaker plant.

This is being done at scale in California and Texas.

Comment · 4 months ago
This is the exact scenario they are being used in at scale. The company removes their gas peaker plant infrastructure and replaces them with batteries. Already have the grid interconnect and now can dispatch power on the millisecond level instead of hour level.
Comment · 4 months ago
My solar panels amaze me every day. It is just crazy that a flat panel, that doesn't have any moving parts, and requires a once a year cleaning (at most), just eliminated my power bill completely.
Comment · 4 months ago
SpaceX is a junk stock. It has no place in the S&P 500
Comment · 4 months ago
He's a twat so its totally on-brand.
Comment · 4 months ago
They have to say this because we know how to value a satellite and space company (aka at 1/100th of their offering price).
Comment · 5 months ago
The market can stay insane longer than you can stay solvent.

In the short term the market is a popularity machine but in the long term it is a weighing machine.

Comment · 5 months ago
Which is still 10x what it is worth
Comment · 5 months ago
So the plan is to make the cost of living even more expensive for people without kids?

Do they understand the problem in the first place? Many people can't afford to have kids.

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